Christmastime is Here

Can you hear the Charlie Brown music in the background?
     With Thanksgiving so late this year, we felt like starting this past weekend that we needed to start decorating.  I put the lights up outside.  Not many of them this year.  A lot of them were not in working condition.  The reindeer are caput.  This is not the year to spend on more lights.  It is sort of the anti-Griswald light display.
     We put up the tree too.  It was a pretty easy process this year.  The only hiccup was the age of battle of symmetry and balance.  The boys were very heavy with the ornaments on the right-front quadrant of the tree.  The boys were great overall.  Caz is tall enough (taller than the old man) to help me set up the tree.  He's not quite the Abominable Snow Man in Rudolph, but he's a big help.
     Demi worked hard to decorate the inside of the house.  She put up the wreaths, displays, lights, and pictures.  I set up my Dickens village in the bay window.  It's been a good team effort.
     But after all that, Caz's assessment was rather harsh.  He came home from practice, while it was dark and reviewed the house.  Demi asked him what he thought.
     "Pathetic."
     Well.....so was the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree.  And people loved that.